Die-Hard Trump Supporters want to *be* Trump
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Back in the 1960s when the James…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Back in the 1960s when the James…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The de facto criminalization of being Muslim…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - There is big news on the solar…
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Starving Yemen
By Helen Lackner | ( OpenDemocracy ) | - - Is the forgotten war turning into a forgotten famine? What answers will we give when the next generation ask how we could…Saudi Airstrikes kill Hundreds of Civilians, maim hundreds at Yemeni Funeral
By TeleSur | - - Saudi Arabia and 10 of its Middle East allies began their military offensive in Yemen with over 100 warplanes and 150,000 troops. Saudi-led warplanes killed at least…Federal Israel-Palestine? A Center-Left Israeli One State Solution
IBA News VOD | (Video Interview) | - - "Federation Movement Founder Emanuel Shahaf Explains One-state vision for Palestinian-Israeli peace." IBA News VOD: "Federation Movement's One-state Proposal Explained by Emanuel Shahaf"The Graveyard of ISIL
By Mustafa Sadoun | Fallujah | ( Niqash.org) | - - NIQASH visits an ISIL cemetery in Fallujah and finds the hastily built, last resting places of several of the group's leaders,…The Other Aleppo: A rare portrait of the Government-held Western City
Channel Four News | (Video News Report) | - - "We have seen the tragedy of East Aleppo which is under siege and fierce bombardment from the Syrian and Russian armies -…As Battle w/ ISIL for Mosul nears, Iraq should exclude Abusive Militias
Human Rights Watch | - - Role of Abusive Armed Forces, Treatment, and Screening of Detainees (Beirut) – The Iraqi government should make a commitment to prevent any armed forces implicated in…De Mistura: al-Qaeda must leave E. Aleppo to save it from Destruction
by Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura has addressed the Levant Conquest Front, whose leader, Abu Muhammad al-Julani, has pledged allegiance to…Return of Virulent Nationalism: how language is being used to mark national borders
Mario Saraceni | (The Conversation) | - - According to a series of newspapers, immigrants will apparently change the English language in Britain beyond repair over the next 50 years. The Daily…Israeli Military seizes Female Gaza aid Flotilla
By Andrea Germanos, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | - - Group including Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire aimed 'to highlight the vital role women play not only in the resistance movement, but in…Balder & Dash: Would our presidential Candidates start a Nuclear War? They won’t answer.
By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - You may have missed it. Perhaps you dozed off. Or wandered into the kitchen to grab a snack. Or by that point…Death by the numbers: A year of violence in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel
By Chloe Benoist | Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- In October 2015 began what has been in turn called a wave of unrest, a Palestinian upheaval, or even…US breaks off Military Cooperation with Russia in Syria
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Arab press reacted to the announcement on Monday by the US government that it was ending its military cooperation with the Russian…In Mosul, ISIL Extremists Wall in Residents, prepare for Armageddon
Special Correspondent | Mosul | (Niqash.org) | - - In Mosul, the Islamic State is preparing for a siege, building walls, tunnels and trenches and boasting that, like the Prophet Mohammed in…The Challenge for the Arab World of tackling Gender-based Violence
By Lina Abirafeh | (The Conversation) | - - It should now be beyond dispute that gender-based violence is a critical human rights issue – possibly the most important human rights challenge…Can Saudi Arabia Survive its Economic ‘Shock Therapy’?
By Nasser Saidi | (Project Syndicate) | - - BEIRUT – Saudi Arabia has long relied on oil to fuel its economic growth and development. Last year, oil accounted for about three-quarters…Iraq: Bush DoD paid PR Firm millions to Plant fake I.S. Videos, False Stories
By Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith | ( The Bureau of Investigative Journalism ) | - - The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run…Syria: Russia warns of Mideast Apocalypse if US attacks al-Assad’s military
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - ABC News reports that Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned that a U.S. attack on the Syrian army "will lead to terrible, tectonic…Syria Quagmire: Has Russia Accomplished anything in a year of Bombing?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Alarabiya says that Russia has killed over 3,000 civilians in its bombing raids of the past year. BBC Monitoring translated an article by…Iran releases Canadian Academic it accused of ‘Feminism,’ but Crackdown on Women Activists Continues
By Mahsa Alimardani | ( Globalvoices.org) | - - Some good news reached Canada this week when Homa Hoodfar, an Iranian-Canadian anthropologist, was released after months of incarceration in Iran. Hoodfar is…Saudi women demand full rights, end to guardianship system
By Sarah Aziza | ( Waging Nonviolence ) | - - In Saudi Arabia, a country many view as synonymous with gender discrimination, women are seeing signs of change. While a few…